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New indie tracks will be added throughout the month. If you've put something on soundcloud during November that you'd like me to listen to then send me a message, cheers

Nov 18 - new tracks for indie lovers

Ana's Flavourites vol. 41

set fire to the couch

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Selected Works Autumn 2018 vol. 6

reading old maps

2018: A Year In Fuzz

Music I Like 19

Komposition für « Wahnsinn » / Deutsches Theater Berlin

night control_forced ice

04 Phantom

Maddening Ride

Parallel Universes

Routine Death - Charm Tooth

Tooth Ache is taken from RF Shannon's sophomore album, Trickster Blues, due for release May 4th on Fuzz Club in Europe and Cosmic Dreamer in the US. Pre-order the vinyl at fuzzclub.com

RF Shannon - Tooth Ache

Lumerians - Silver Trash

ChangesOneBowie

Ziggy Stardust (2012 Remaster)

Full Bloom

For Berlin duo Medicine Boy, their melancholic noise pop is less about all-out-noise than it is about exploring the spaces in-between. Grinding organs and soft desolate piano sink beneath waves of guitar that are at times gentle and drifting, at others feral and unforgiving. All the while, Lucy and Andre’s voices remain entwined and intimate – sometimes discordant, yet always heavenly. The result is a truly remarkable sound that sits somewhere between PJ Harvey, Mazzy Star and TJ&MC, yet exists in a sombre world of its own. Laying out their mantra, the band explain: “The joy of working with noise is that you can take something that appears to be quite sweet and simple and expose the sordid parts of it. Or celebrate the sublime in it. Ideally a bit of both.” 

Originally hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, André Leo and Lucy Kruger founded the project back in 2014, self-releasing their debut EP to international appraise. By the time their debut full-length, Kinda Like Electricity, was released into the world their ever-growing fanbase had extended far beyond the confines of Africa, solidified further with two tours around Europe and the UK in 2015 and 2016. Now residing in Berlin, Medicine Boy are gearing up for the release of their incredible second album Lower on October 5th, due for release via London-based label Fuzz Club.

Uncertainty, fragility and the unknown all sit at the heart of this record. Even when Medicine Boy are at their most delicate and beautiful, things constantly feel like they’re teetering on the edge, ready to collapse at any given moment. And, like the calm before the storm, often it does - veering unexpectedly into a whirlwind of buzzsaw guitars, primal percussion and snarling vocals. That same gloomy ethereality constantly floating close to the surface. The band explain that this antagonistic relationship more than likely explains the aquatic theme through the album – ‘Bottom Of The Blue’ and ‘Water Girl’ being two stand-out tracks: “I don’t quite know why but the theme of water is all over this record. Something about the tranquillity and uncertainty, perhaps. The violence just beneath the surface. The potential for a sudden shift in tide.” 

With the relocation to Berlin and Fuzz Club signing, Lower marks an exciting new chapter in Medicine Boy’s story. From the beginning, this attempt to deconstruct our relationship with noise has been at the heart of the band but on this new effort, we see the band sounding better than ever, exploring that relationship even further and proving beyond any reasonable doubt why the band have been picking up such a buzz. As the band themselves put it: “Lower is a myriad of introspection and interpretation. There are wider themes, stranger worlds and deeper wells than before. It is some kind of attempt to draw comfort (however twisted) and companionship (however tainted) from chaos and confusion. It's our attempt to find beauty in the underworld.”

Lower

Medicine Boy - One Hundred Bodies

Following widespread critical acclaim for their debut album Yes I Jan upon its release in February and subsequent appearances at festivals this summer including Green Man and End of the Road, London experimental post-punk trio Bas Jan return with the Instant Nostalgia EP. Set for release on November 23, 2018 on 10” vinyl and digital download, it’s another smart, refreshing, surprising and laugh-out-loud funny set of joyously unvarnished songs in the extraordinary and distinctive idiom of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. The first track from the EP, ‘Profile Picture’ – a discoid response to digitised humanity, a swirling electronic pop satire – is available to stream and share now.

BAS JAN LIVE:

SAT, SEP 8 @ LOST MAP’S STRANGE INVITATION 5TH BIRTHDAY ALL-DAYER,
ST PETER’S HALL, EDINBURGH

FRI, SEP 21 @ TOM THUMB THEATRE, MARGATE

SUN, NOV 4 @ SOUTHBANK CLUB, BRISTOL* (SUPPORTING DRINKS) 

MON, NOV 5 @ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LEEDS (SUPPORTING DRINKS)

TUE, NOV 6 @ OSLO, LONDON (SUPPORTING DRINKS)

SAT, NOV 10 @ BOILER SHOP, NEWCASTLE (SUPPORTING BRITISH SEA POWER)

Bas Jan - 'Profile Picture'

Fill The Void

The Underground Youth - Fill The Void

Qlowski - Golden Boy

Qlowski - Taking Control

Vonal-Axis

Steeple Remove - In Dreams

Steeple Remove - Set It

Steeple Remove - Ferris Noir

Steeple Remove - Blood Veins

Steeple Remove - Oval-Strii

From "Gravity" LP
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Twisted Mind

The lyrics deal with the fact that many of us keep to our own small bubbles. We're afraid to open our eyes and see other people's problems.

Still, we're never satisfied with who we are, and we want to change both ourselves and other people's perception of us. We keep trying to find another, better world.

Musically, a regular song structure soon gives way to a simple guitar theme that builds to a huge sound wall - the discovery of that elusive other world. Or realizing that it doesn't exist?

In Another World

Fools

Title track from the forthcoming Instant Nostalgia EP, released on Lost Map on Friday 23rd November 2018, on 10" vinyl and digital download.  Available to pre-order from the Lost Map website: https://www.lostmap.com/products/bas-jan-instant-nostalgia

Buy 10" EP

Bas Jan - 'Instant Nostalgia'

Forgotten Graves

Tombes Oubliées

Two Step

London experimental five-piece return for more anarchic genre-blending adventures. 

London experimental five-piece Housewives return for more anarchic genre-blending adventures with their new single 'Speak To Me'; A synthesized collage written in Wetherspoons, cafes and anywhere away from their houseboats where they could find an electrical supply. 

Exploring the possibilities of electronic sound, with dead-behind-the-eyes chanting, this latest snippet of things to come marks a turning point for the band who sold their guitars to buy midi equipment and swapped London rents for houseboat living. 

Using huge live drums, saccharine vocal samples, pulsating sub bass and mechanically entwined guitar lines; 'Speak to Me' is a sign of the bands’ new direction with a constantly evolving sound, creating an anxiety and tightness that assumes the feeling of a knot in the stomach, or a strained smile. 

The band describe it as 'a love song of frustration and sensitivity through the eyes of a victim of the isolation of modern life. Quiet but not shy, voiceless, seething, dumb and in love'. 

In the video, created by the band and our in-house art department, we're transported into a manifestation of the inescapable digital experience of our everyday lives and its effect on our psyche. The thin layer of perceptible reality is constantly disrupted via the breaking of the digital facade. 



Speak to me 
your nice talk 
use your hands to help me 
your voice washes over 
lost in conversation 
I am in my own world 
I stand in the corner 
I am in my own world 
only an observer 
reel around the gas light 
your voice makes my eyes moist 
I feel awful fragile 
don’t look at the carpet 
I’ve done nothing recent 
nothing worth the paper 
nothing good and Godly 
like thin discs of wafer 
it will come unto me 

Written and recorded By Housewives 
Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux 
Artwork by Mara Krastina 
(www.instagram.com/mara_krastina/) 
Design by Joseph A.C. Rafferty 
Digital release by Blank Editions

Speak to Me

Buy here

Housewives - Speak To Me

POLYFIL

"Pop Song," the first single off HARMS' debut EP, "Aquarium." ~ smarturl.it/harms-aquarium

"'Pop Song' was written as a comment on the expectation of 'autobiographical' songwriters to be authentic, and the resultant fact that if you open and up and are vulnerable with your songs and lyrics, that information can be taken and mutated and twisted by people, sometimes people who want to do you harm. However, in the end, as an artist, I'm always hoping that people accept my broken shit and that it resonates and makes people feel closer to the vulnerable parts of themselves. 

By exposing the darker parts of my self, I'm hoping to create empathy."

Lyrics:

when you're caught carving pop songs into your spine and wrists

they'll make you wish that you had never lived,

but who are they? stuck and straight -- don't want to feel the way

i do in the morning, wipe the blues out of my brain


(say you love me back)


when you're caught carving poems into your forearms, they'll

look at you, just say I meant no harm

I wrote a letter, like The Stranger -- I felt so sick with anger

I'm the car crash in your diary, the danger in your little scene


(say you love me back)


the city's blinking maze just made me quit

don't know how to write songs or lose consciousness

spent a year at the museum, woke up in your bed

HARMS - "Pop Song"

Taken from the album 'Mirror Infinite' out now on Bandcamp and most online stores. https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-infinite

Mirror Infinite

Grey Sun

State Azure - Grey Sun

Syzygy ep

Bandcamp

Over And Over

Big thanks to everyone for their support this past year  - heres to 2019   !

M.P.F

Opium is available for free download from: http://t.opsp.in/k0BqK

Dead Can Dance have announced details of the release of a new single, Opium, through [PIAS] Recordings on 29th October 2012.

The single is taken from their recently released album, Anastasis, which came out in August. The album was their first since 1996’s Spiritchaser. 

The band also recently announced an extensive European tour, including a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, tickets for which sold-out within 48 hours of going onsale. 

The full list of European dates are as follows:

SEPTEMBER
16th		Beirut				Zouk
19th		Istanbul			        HCTAT
21st		Thessaloniki			Earth Theatre
23rd		Athens				Lycabetus
25th		Utrecht		         	MCV
27th		Paris				Grand Rex
29th		Brussels			Cirque Royal

OCTOBER
1st			Frankfurt			Alte Oper
3rd			Berlin				Tempodrom
5th			Hamburg			CCH
7th			Munich			         Philharmonie
8th			Cologne			         Philharmonie
10th		Prague				KCP
12th		St. Petersburg		 Ice Palace
13th		Moscow			        Crocus City Hall
15th		Warsaw			         Sala Kongresowa
17th		Budapest			Papp Laszlo Arena
19th		Milan				Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
20th		Geneva			        Batiment Des Forces Motrices
22nd		Barcelona			Auditori
24th		Porto				Casa Da Musica
26th		London			         Royal Albert Hall
28th		Dublin				Grand Canal Theatre

Signed by 4AD and releasing their first album in 1984, the duo drew rapturous reviews for albums that spanned neo-classical and folk across time and geography, each album selling to a progressively larger audience, the emotional drama of their coming to the attention of the San Francisco ballet, Hermes Perfume and a documentary on Hitler and Stalin; likewise motion pictures such as Heat, The Crossing Guard and Baraka. Gerrard developed her own solo film soundtracks - The Gladiator and The Insider, for example – while Perry worked on solo albums such as 1999’s ‘Eye Of the Hunter’ and 2008’s ‘Ark’.

Dead Can Dance - Opium

Additional Production and Remix by Justin Strauss for Just Right Productions. 1987. Remix Engineered by Daniel Abraham. Additional Keyboard Programming by Eric Kupper. Edited by Chep Nunez.

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